Building Infrastructure with Appropriate Technology
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Bibliographic Details
Author(s): |
C. R. Alimchandani
N. Bandyopadhyay |
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Medium: | conference paper | ||||
Language(s): | English | ||||
Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Sustainable Infrastructure - Environment Friendly, Safe and Resource Efficient, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-11 September 2009 | ||||
Published in: | IABSE Symposium Bangkok 2009 | ||||
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Page(s): | 50-59 | ||||
Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
Year: | 2009 | ||||
DOI: | 10.2749/222137809796088891 | ||||
Abstract: |
Building Infrastructure like Road or Rail Network, Irrigation canal Network seeds economic development of a region. In order to sustain the development as well as maintain and update the assets so built, it is necessary that Technology that is “Appropriate” in the context of the society is adopted in the first place. Execution of two Indian Projects has been described to demonstrate the significance of this concept. |
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Keywords: |
suspension bridge post-tensioning segmental construction construction technology appropriate technology
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